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Category: Joseph Brodsky

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

Man is what he reads.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside.

3 December 2020 Joseph Brodsky

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

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